| Shannon Kearns-Simmons |
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Professor of Stage Movement and Improvisation |
 Shannon
Kearns-Simmons is an actor, director, and teacher.
She studied acting and theatre in London, at Bucknell University,
and received her MFA in Acting at the International Actor's Training
Academy at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
She has performed in London, Bratislava, Slovakia, and Budapest,
Hungary. She has worked
with Fred Neumann and Ruth Maleczech and Mabou Mines; with
Thomas Prattki from the Le Coq School of Paris; and members of The Living Theatre, The
Moscow School of Dramatic Arts, Shakespeare and Company, the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Dell’Arte
International School of Physical Theatre and the Omaha Magic Theatre.
She has been privileged to have been directed by leading
directors of our time as Hermia in Liviu Ciulei's A
Midsummer Night's Dream, Electra in Henryk Baranowski’s The
Oresteia, a dancer/ensemble member in Laszlo Marton’s Dance In
Time (North American Premiere), as Titania (Midsummer) and
Aguae in the world premiere of Reginald Gibbons’ new translation of Bakkhai,
by Fred Curchack, and by Peter Huszti from the Hungarian
National Academy of Acting in Shakespeare’s Flowers.
Shannon was also the co-creator and performer with Fred Curchack
in their original two-person show Lear’s Shadow, which combines
and weaves live action with video projection, puppets, masks, and the
playing of multiple roles. Shannon has taught at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville, Texas Woman’s University and the University of Texas at
Dallas. In 2004Contact Shannon: 972 881-5621. EMAIL. |
